Shady Middle East group at work

Members of the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), place portraits of their 52 members killed at Camp Ashraf on September 19, 2013 during a event at the United Nations (UN) Offices in Geneva. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images / FABRICE COFFRINI

I served at Forward Operating Base Spartan in Ashraf, Iraq, for six months in 2005. I met frequently with people defecting from Mujahedeen Khalq, also known as MEK, former Saddam Hussein henchmen and women.

Defectors told of the rules within the MEK: an all-female command structure, no children, no relationships between men and women, no religion. It was the MEK that put down the Kurdish rebellion after the first Gulf War. They had Kurds lay down in the streets and then ran them over with their tanks.

Every time Saddam needed someone to crush an opponent, he would send the MEK. The MEK dreams of overthrowing the mullahs in Iran. The MEK is all about manipulation and has enticed American politicians and others to their cause. This is not difficult when you consider the extremism of their enemies, the mullahs in Iran.